Jana Kopfová
Artists
Jana Kopfová
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Mathematical Institute of the Silesian University
Opava, Czech Republic
Statement
As a child, I dreamed to study mathematics and arts. I became a profesional mathematician and my love of arts remained my hobby. I am trying to spread the beauty of Mathematics through all what I do - through my lectures, through math circles to high school students, through animated movies about Math, which I helped to create, and lately also through Silk paintings. I love flowers and geometrical designs and playing with the technique a colors.
Artworks
![Image for entry 'Chagall's Interwoven spirals'](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubmit.bridgesmathart.org%2Frails%2Factive_storage%2Fblobs%2Fproxy%2FeyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjA0MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ%3D%3D--717d18907d6c5af51afe5649fb1b15134b376aba%2Fp1080795.jpg&w=1536&q=75)
Chagall's Interwoven spirals
21 x 14 x 1 cm
Silk painting
2015
Spirals woven together in harmony. Inspired by Chagall's windows in a church in Mainz in connection with spiral attractors of differential equations.
![Image for entry 'Spiral triangulations'](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubmit.bridgesmathart.org%2Frails%2Factive_storage%2Fblobs%2Fproxy%2FeyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjA0MywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ%3D%3D--f289c38ae8031f96d1970aa683e3571434cb26e6%2Fp1100524.jpg&w=1536&q=75)
Spiral triangulations
20 x 20 x 1 cm
Silk painting
2016
This work is an expression of harmony found in nature or in a relationship between people and the beauty of geometry in connection with triangulations - as a method of finding numerical solutions of differential equations. Simple things woven together through geometrical ideas create enough freedom for each individual journey in harmony with others.